im Mai 1925 erschien ein Artikel im Electrician --- hier ein Auszug: 222 7. The Twentieth Century: The First Quarter relative advantages and disadvantages of the two unites (157], These in¬cluded one by Colonel Sir Thomas Fortune Purves (1871-1950) [158], Chief Engineer of the British Post Office, which may have been decisive. He wrote: The term "bell" has indeed been suggested [for the name of the TU] and it combines a graceful compliment to the inventor of the telephone with the symbols ß, e and /, which have become so prominent in transmission theory. Unfortunately, it is an everyday English word I think my preference [over other suggested names] would be [the bell] abbreviated to the form "bel." (T.F.Purves, in The Electrician 94,535, May 8, 1925) The final result of the work of the international committees was to establish the neper as the unit of loss in terms of the natural logarithm (after Sir John Napier, 1550-1617, the inventor of the natural logarithm), and the bel as the unit of loss in terms of the denary logarithm. The decibel was almost immediately adopted as the operative unit. auf Deutsch: das Wort Bell kommt im Alltag vor und klingt besser, wenn man es bel nennt.